Humanitarian OSM Team/Open Mapping Hub - Latin America and The Caribbean/Activations/2024 Quintana Roo Hurricanes Response

Background

2024 Quintana Roo Hurricanes Response Description Tropical Cyclone Alberto. Coordination: Open Mapping Hub Lating America Partners: CoMapper Hashtag: #2024_mxqroo_shelters Campaign: Time-frame: July 2024 - TBC Data Context of the Activation As of June 2024, both Hurricane Alberto and Hurricane Beryl are significantly impacting the Yucatán Peninsula, particularly in Quintana Roo. These hurricanes have prompted urgent alerts throughout the region, leading authorities to activate emergency shelters. The combined effects of these hurricanes have caused substantial disruptions. Heavy rains and strong winds have resulted in flooding, causing widespread chaos and significant challenges. In response, as part of the Mapping for Climate Ready Cities Program, the Open Mapping Hub in Latin America and the Caribbean Hub (Humanitarian Team of OpenStreetMap) and CoMapper, in collaboration with the Quintana Roo Government, are calling on mappers with intermediate experience to participate in the emergency mapping activation on OpenStreetMap (OSM) in Quintana Roo. The primary objective will be to map temporary shelters following the passage of Hurricanes Alberto and Beryl.

Contacts

• Céline Jacquin - celine.jacquin@hotosm.org

Hashtag

All contributions through HOT's Tasking Manager are tracked with a unique change set comment tag: #2024_mxqroo_shelters

Timeline

• Start: July 1, 2024
• End: To be defined

Remote Mapping Coordination

• Source data for task location in populated places: TBC
• List of active projects in the Tasking Manager: TBC
• Leaderboard for tracking general editing statistics: TBC

About This Disaster Activation

About HOT

To learn more about the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), explore more of our wiki-pages (root: HOT) or our website hotosm.org. HOT is a global community, mostly of volunteers, and it is a US registered nonprofit able to contract with organizations (email info at hotosm.org to contact our staff), we are also a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

History of this Activation

Implementing Partner

July 1, 2024 - In response to Hurricanes Alberto and Beryl, as part of the Mapping for Climate Ready Cities Program, the Latin America and the Caribbean Hub from the Humanitarian Team of OpenStreetMap and CoMapper, in collaboration with the Quintana Roo Government, are calling on mappers with intermediate experience to participate in the emergency mapping activation on OpenStreetMap (OSM) in Quintana Roo. The primary objective will be to map temporary shelters.

Coordination Lead(s)

• Céline Jacquin (HOT Tasking Manager support)

Data Quality

Validation

Validation permissions for Tasking Manager projects are restricted to particular Tasking Manager Teams / users to ensure high quality validation:

• HOT Global Validators
• Validator Trainees
• MSF Validators
• Data Quality Interns
• Data Quality Interns 2022

OSMCha

A specific OSMCha filter can be used to detect data quality issues across a wider area.

Overpass Turbo

A specific Overpass Turbo query can be used to check the data quality regularly. Open it in JOSM and run validation (Shift+V).

For Mappers

How You Can Contribute

Learn to Map

• Most of our volunteer needs are for remote OSM contributors, visit LearnOSM.org and MapRoulette to get started.

Mapping Priority

• Please choose from highest priority first,
• Experienced mappers are also asked to participate in validating completed tasks. Information on validating can be found here:

		MapRoulette Projects
Project	Priority	Name	Task Mapping Status %	Task Validation Status %
TBC	High	TBC	0% (in process)	0% (not completed)

Community Mapathons

Community Mapathons

Date	Time	Lead Community	Country	Location/ Meeting Link/ Registration Link	Type	Status	Notes	Social Media Post
July 2nd	6 pm (Mexico City) - Check timezone here	CoMapper	Mexico	Registration link	Intermediate	In process	Help us identify and map temporary shelters.	Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Mastodon

Available Imagery

Project-Specific Mapping Notes

TBC